Japan Flora: Plant stoloniferous; rhizomes short; stems usually solitary, simple, erect, 10-25 cm. long, rather prominently long-hirsute; basal leaves rosulate; cauline leaves few, narrowly obovate to spathulate-oblong, 2-4 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, obtuse, cuneate at base, sessile or sub- sessile, loosely hirsute, with few undulate teeth, the upper leaves gradually reduced to bracts; leaves of stolons spathulate, petiolate; spikes with 5-10 rather loose verticils; flowers pale purple; corolla-tube 6-7 mm. long, the upper lip scarcely 1 mm. long, bilobed, the lower lip erect, scarcely shorter than the tube, spreading, the midlobe cuneate-obovate, notched at the apex; nutlets about 1.5 mm. long. May-Jnne. Sunny hills;

Honshu; rather rare. s. Kuriles.